SIDES

Another vocal oriented album, less progressive than the debut album but still has enough high-quality progressive moments. "I want your love" is a romantic pop track with vocals as the most interesting item, unfortunately. "Lucy Will" is even worse with careless vocals and lush keyboards/percussions. "Side door" and "Holy deadlock" are other blatant upbeat track.

Finally a mildly interesting track back to the roots - "Souvenir" with effective vocals and acoustic guitar. "Sisters of Remindum" is a fully-fledged progressive rock workout with a calm piano first section turning into a furious workout where drums shine over the bass and piano lines which are not too complex. "Bleak House" has common traits with Banks music of that era, especially the piano and synths patterns.

"Nightmare" is one of the best AP progressive rock tracks - the drums, synths and guitar are mighty. The track is quite pompous and could compete with best symphonic tracks by Hackett

The weak first side is compensated by strong second side but still, it does not get above 3 stars.